oxen

Other forms of oxen

plural

oxens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oxen

What does oxen mean?

oxen means "domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age".

How many syllables are in oxen?

oxen has 2 syllables: ox-en. The stress falls on "ox". In IPA it is /ˈɑksən/.

What is another word for oxen?

Close synonyms include cattle, cows, kine, Bos taurus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oxen a common word?

oxen is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.